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The UK Government is spending 4m in a bid to find ‘the next Tomb Raider’. The new development fund launches today and is set-up to help get games from ‘the drawing board and into the production’. The Video Game Prototype Fund is set to run between now and 2019, and …

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has updated the industry on figures surrounding the long-awaited tax breaks. Finally introduced last year, the video games tax relief enables studios to recoup some of the costs of development through help from the government. Speaking at Develop: Brighton this morning, Vaizey revealed a few statistics …

Developers can now apply for grants from the US government towards the development of any games created for educational purposes. The Small Business Innovation Research program is open to small business firms with fewer than 500 employees for the research, development and evaluation of commercially viable educational products. Grants range …

American government hosts first Games for Learning Summit

TIGA survey of 100 games businesses claims developers also want National Lottery funding available to them

'This is a great day for the UK video games development and digital publishing sector,' says TIGA's Richard Wilson

Online game subscriptions like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live will now be used to calculate the impact of inflation. As spotted by Eurogamer, these schemes have been added into the UK Government’s consumer price index (CPI), the list of goods and services used to measure inflation. PlayStation Plus and Xbox …

Last week’s MCV and UKIE figures valuing the market for games in the UK showed a growth once more in consumer hunger for games. The consumer market grew by 13 per cent, reaching 3.944bn in 2014, almost on par with its value in 2008. The strength and geographical spread of …

Money will be used to boost creative industries and generate jobs across games, TV, film and more

Turns out David is a big fan of simulation games